My high school's library kind of looked like the one in this film, with the mezzanine bit.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
my high school was one story, spread out, lots of open space, basically every school in my city was like that. on a certain level I felt like I wasn't getting the 'hs experience' cause my school didn't look like a large multistory brick building etc. etc.
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
some people I know went to high schools that had multiple buildings
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
You mean multiple campuses? Mulitple bldgs doesnt seem that unusual. Ours was like that - mind you most of those were crappy temporary huts not far removed from shipping containers (very shitty old school, library aside)
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
there was like a science building
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
We only had one floor, no pool, no courtyard, no fancy entrance, no auditorium, and nobody hung around outside except in the parking lot. I feel cheated.
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
we had 6 buildings. 3 of them, 60s or 70s pre-fabs, were 3 stories. total shithole tho.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
I'm guessing bender comes from a broken family
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
my high school: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_High_School_(Des_Moines,_Iowa)
tbf I spent half my time at a magnet school for AP classes and some vocational-type ones
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
SPOILER
"shut up bitch! go fix me a turkey pot pie" iirc
xp
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
we had block scheduling too, tho the 'split the year in two' type
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
Facebook friends have confirmed it: my high school had two storeys + a basement. (This sums it up: large multistory brick building. Looks a bit like a factory or something.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merivale_High_School
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
The magnet school I went to was a factory! They finally did a lot of renovations in the last few years that make it look a little less so, but it was originally a Ford factory, then a small aircraft factory before later becoming the technical high school in the 60s.
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
horseshoe otm
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
My school was all one building, and it covered K-12.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
OMG that sounds disastrous.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
mine was all one building to, but 5-12. four floors, a roof (where recess was) and a basement.
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, the high school was a two-story wing about 100' long. The grade school (K-6) was your fairly typical one-story brick school building. The junior high wing was basically a hallway connecting the two, with classrooms along one side.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
My school was like that, except it was two large buildings next to each other on a big plot of land. The year I graduated they added a third across the street.
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
To help maybe with the perspective here, my graduating class was 42.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
Mine was one of the largest - in terms of physical space, not number of students - in the country (I've heard it's in the top 5). It was built for 6000 students, though that had dipped to around 3000 when I was there. 6 gyms, 2 pools, 4 cafeterias, a field house, an auditorium, and two additional theaters.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
damn! you win
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
Man that sounds like one of the recentish high schools they built out in Naperville that resembles a college campus more than a high school.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
Also, our chief rival was the school where The Breakfast Club was filmed (sort of; there was a New Trier East and West, and West was closed/vacant for years, which is where TBC was filmed).
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
It's ETHS, which I'm guessing has been surpassed in size since the 80s.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, yeah, thats still huge though. I live about a mile and a half directly south of there.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
i just started GISing for photos of my high school and found this totally breakfast-club style picture i would like to share with the thread:http://i.imgur.com/A5C1A.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, cool. Yeah, I assumed some new schools had come up since then that were the size of malls or something.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
going to school in a mall would be dope
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
ha that exists somewhere in canada, let me find the link
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
okay I failed at finding it but I know it's in some huge vancouver suburb as part of this train-station/mall complex
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
haha that's like all of my fav-o-rite things
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
just finished TBC and I don't think I 'get it' maybe I should have watched it 10 years earlier. probably a catcher in the rye type sitch
dont you
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
forget about me.
I probably would have liked this movie more if the nerd had done something cool in the end like get laid. oh well I guess nerds always lose, even in john guhhes movies
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
16 candles & nat'l lampoon's vacation are pretty nerd victorious I thought.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
ferris bueller's is the best JH movie by a country mile.
i went to high school with his nieces but this was during the era of "flubber" so it wasn't very cool
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
It really is a bit of an 80s "had to be there" thing, I think. At least I think so? younger ppl I know never seem to get into it.
I always envied that schools in other countries had cafeterias! We just had a "tuckshop" - a shed out of which they sold crap like meat pies, samdwiches and drinks, and you had to sit out in the concrete playground rain, hail, snow or (40+degC) shine.
...I went home for lunch every day instead.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
it took 40 minutes to get home, I took my lunch every day. Four times a year I got to buy a pie from the tuckshop as a treat.
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
I was lucky, I lived next door to my highschool, otherwise I'dve had to take lunch as well I imagine.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
tell me more of these meat pies.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://i33.tinypic.com/2q8658l.jpg
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 06:31 (twelve years ago) link
My senior high school (in Finland the classes that Americans call "junior high" are part of elementary school) had 4 stories and a basement, but it's an old school dating back to the 19th century:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Visit-suomi-2009-05-by-RalfR-054.jpg
As a building, it was a pretty cool place to go to, at least compared to the grey, "modern" concrete school I went to before that:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/5/9574225_1b951278fa.jpg
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 08:21 (twelve years ago) link
my h.s. was gargantuan
― I Love Pedantry (D-40), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/5355571.jpg
not pictured: football field, environmental preserve, backup power station
― I Love Pedantry (D-40), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
probably some of the fields are cut out also
Holy shit, that's huge!
What's the thing on the left if it's not a football field?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'll put in a guess for rugby?
― beachville, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
What thing on the left exactly?
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link